No school of barbering shall be approved by the Board of Barber Examiners unless it requires as a prerequisite to graduation a course of instruction of not less than nine months with a minimum of fifteen hundred hours, such course of instruction to include the following subjects: scientific fundamentals for barbering, hygiene, bacteriology as applied to barbering, structure of the head, face and neck, elementary chemistry relating to sterilization and antiseptics, diseases of the skin and hair, massaging and manipulating the muscles of the upper body, haircutting, shaving, and arranging, dressing, coloring, bleaching, and tinting the hair.
SDCL 36-14-17